Journal Entry 99 Title: Final Exam

The final exam was hard, at least to me. The element in poetry is so diverse. There are too many different kind of vocabularies we have to memorize for this test. But the good thing was that the test is, to my utter amazement, quite short. Only 14 questions for the multiple choice, even thought this mean a question wrong can be a great deduction. I do like short tests though, because it won't make me panic as much. When I panic, I tend to loose control of my mind and I forget all the information need to finish the tests, and I feel very, very hungry after my "exam panic attacks." But after looking at the total amount of the test, I felt relaxed and didn't make me panic as much as the title, "8th Grade English Exam," did. For the essay questions, I didn't feel as confident, I guess I wasn't prepared and ready enough. I am never ready, even when I say I'm ready myself, I'm not. If the teacher said "don't worry, this exam is very easy," I wouldn't kill anyone for that, because I am a gentleman. But, I'll smack him.

Journal Entry 97 Title: True or False?

It's okay to lie, but only when you lie for good. When you care about someone, or trying just HIDE the truth. You can only lie when it doesn't harm other people, but still, try not to, because it's not a good thing. Sometimes you have a secrete only you and your close friend knows, but you totally do not want anyone else to know anything around and about it. When someone come and ask you about this secrete, you would say "that's not true" "I don't think so" "never heard anything about it" "really? who told you that, that's totally false information" etc. You would say something like that even thought it should be the totally opposite answer, but that's because it's your own privacy and you don't want other people to know about it. To hide the truth is just not to answer to such questions, it's not actually counted as LYING, it's just… a lack of information. The better way for these situation is this solution of just not telling an answer. Hiding won't hurt anyone, most of the time, and you can never be blamed for just NOT SAYING some PARTS of a whole. So it is actually okay to lie for things like these. :D

Journal Entry 96 Title: Independent Reading Project Reflection

Int his project, I did a report and a poster on the book, Great Expectations. For the book report, I based on what I've learned in the book and the plot that I remembered in my mind. The book report made me think harder into the story, and also made me reorganize the plot in my mind. This report also gave me a clear idea about the theme, after I reorganized it. The theme is to love and care about the things around you, not just assume a ridiculous future. I used to be like that, thinking about a bigger future, a great expectation, but they only disappoints me. This project is useful to people like me. I don't think much when I read, but when thinking became a required procedure, I will do it and have fun doing it. The poster i made for the book, the Great Expectations, is a wanted poster. I made a wanted poster for this book, because there are many crimes, criminals, convicts, escapee, and kidnapping in the story. My poster is about Abel Magwitch, since he is the one who did the most crime. I did many drafts on this project. At first I did one, but i think the style of the poster didn't appeal to me at all, so I decided to remake one. I was satisfied with my second draft. It is a more cartoonic version, and I think it's perfect for this project. But then, I realized that it's totally wrong, the unit of award's amount should be in pounds, instead of dollars. Also, I forgot to put the criminal's name in. So  had to remake one. On the last one, I made all the lining PERFECT, and the picture is even better than last time, and there are no more mistakes.

Journal Entry 94 Title: My Most and Least Favorite

Okay, I will start with my favorite book this year. I have several favorites i want to talk about, but I will still list them from the most to the least. The first book is the Westing Game. This book is very interesting with all the mysterious plot, and there are many humorous dialogues. The plot is interesting which forces me to spend more time on it and grabs my attention, and that's not really a bad thing to me. The second one is the Great Expectations. This is not a book chose by the teacher, or the school, that is one reason i like it. I chose this book, because it's heavy, and it looks like i can learn from it, and i did. This book is one of the biggest book I've ever read, actually, it IS the biggest and the longest and the most completed book I've read. And maybe that will be like this for another 20 years…. But this book is chose as an assignment, and I didn't have enough time to read it, therefore, I had to skip some parts (please forgive my act, Mr.McCool). Anyways, the important thing is that i learned from it, and I think I will take the lecture from the theme and put it into my own life. The theme is to love what you already have and care about people around you, to live the life in front of you, not just creating and assuming weird expectations that will totally disappoint you.
My least favorite, or the most hatful book is Hatchet. This book totally disappointed me, I heard this book is very lovable and fun. I guess my expectations was set too high…. It is boring, it's a novel that is trying to teach me things about survival. It fine for books to teach as philosophies and stuff, but they teach readers through themes and morals. Unlike the other books, Hatchet teach too many stuff, or includes too many scattered themes, it made the novel unreadable and unloving for me. I want a novel, not a list of instructions, and if I want lists, I don't want them in paragraph forms. :( !!
I like poetry the most. It is artistic and it is like an abstract painting, using figurative languages. I also enjoy writing poems, I have no idea why, maybe because it is a kind of free write, and I really like free writing.

Journal Entry 90 Title: Adjectives

favorite place

• Cold
• Yummy
• Big
• Humid
• Friendly
• Pretty
• Windy
• Flat
• Grassy
• North

favorite food

• Brown
• Juicy
• Spicy
• Hot
• Indian

favorite thing

• Portable
• Transparent
• Useful
• Long
• Thin
• Markable

favorite activity

• Relaxing
• Painful
• Happy
• Brain juice boiling

favorite holiday

• Orange
• Dark
• Scary
• Awesome
• Annual

favorite person

• Dark
• Happy
• Curly
• Smiley
• Caring
• Funny
• Angry
• Furious

Journal Entry 89 Title: Experiences

1. I fell off my chair and hit the floor with my butt
2. I tangled my hands with a rubber band
3. I cut myself with a scissor doing a projects
4. I whipped  my blood of with a tissue
5. I sprayed 75% alcohol on my wound
6. I open the drawer with my hands to get an bandage
7. I drew pictures on my arm and hand with a marker
8. I washed the ink on my arms off with soap
9. I scratched the remaining ink mark off my arm
10. I opened a book and got a deep paper cut on my finger
11. I whipped my blood on one of the pages of the book
12. The wound stretched as I rub it on the paper
13. Warm blood run down my index finger
14. I washed my wound with water
15. I sprayed 75% alcohol on the wound

Journal Entry 93 Title: Hip-Hop Language

Ma Day >:D

I rode a bus up to TPE
On the bus I saw an old lady
I stood up to let her sit
Then a lil' punk just took the seat
I took my phone n' said I would call the police,
Then that kid just sneered at me….
I went off the bus after it stopped,
Then a convenient store caught my eye.
I think i should get some good Slurpee.
I go to the convenient store,
Then the automatic door opens up for me.
Walk inside and fill my cup.
Filling that cup was not easy.
Gotta make sure don't make it too full,
Or else the carbon dioxide will make it BLOW DD:
The line formed long right behind me.
I felt rushed, but I can't help it,
Cuz I really cant find my last penny.
I left after I paid with my hundred dollar bill,
leaving some change clinking in my pocket.
I go through some store in the mall,
But I can't seem to find anything appealing,
So I'm just gonna go home n' get some comic.